--- Michael Kruckenberg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Having images in the database also makes scaling
> pretty simple in that
> we can add replicated slave machines for reading
> images.
I'm not yet familiar with scaling and "replicated
slave machines," but I'm beginning to see more uses
for storing image LINKS in MySQL.
Suppose I have a field that stores links that look
like this:
<img src="<?php echo "$seg" ?>images/states/ak.gif"
width="100" height="75" />
<img src="<?php echo "$seg" ?>images/states/wy.gif"
width="100" height="75" />
and another field that stores image links that look
like this:
<img src="<?php echo "$seg" ?>images/maps/ak.gif"
width="100" height="75" />
<img src="<?php echo "$seg" ?>images/maps/wy.gif"
width="100" height="75" />
then all I have to do is replace $seg with the path to
the image folder to display my images. The images
don't even have to be the same size, since I have to
enter each state's image individually, anyway.
I guess that's pretty simplistic, but it's something I
hadn't thought of before. I was thinking of databases
in terms of text only.
Actually, it would be more convenient if I could enter
image links without the width and height values. I
suppose that would work if I used them as background
images.
And I could even create a field that anticipates a
future series of images in an as yet unspecified
folder:
<img src="<?php echo "$seg" ?>images/<?php echo
"$WHAT" ?>/ak.gif" width="100" height="75" />
If I then create a series of images in a folder named
landscapes - or nature/landscapes - then I would use
PHP to replace WHAT with nature/landspaces.
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